Mayo Clinic taps into blockchain technology for clinical trial design
The firm seeks to use Triall's medical software to create immutable clinical trial records. On Thursday, Dutch blockchain startup Triall announced that it has partnered with American nonprofit medical center Mayo Clinic to optimize clinical trial design and the management of study data. Starting this September, Triall's eClinical platform will support a two-year multi-center pulmonary arterial hypertension clinical trial that includes 10 research sites and more than 500 patients across the United States. The software will support activities such as data capture, document management, study....
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